Chanel, the French luxury brand, announced on Monday that it would “no longer use exotic skins” in its future collections. The range of “rare leather” mentioned here includes crocodile, lizard, snake and skate skins. Bruno Pavlovsky, President of Chanel, also revealed that fur will be stopped in the future, and said that the number of Chanel’s products using fur is very small. Pavlovsky says: “in the future, our high-end products will mainly come from fabrics developed and produced in our workshops.”Pavlovsky explains that it is becoming more difficult and costly to find leather sources that meet Chanel’s standards and ethical standards, so the brand will focus on fabric development in the future, using textiles and leather materials from animal husbandry to make goods. Pavlovsky revealed that in the following shows, there will be some products made of new fabrics developed by Chanel workshops.
This news, the majority of Internet users have thumbed up, yes, no sales no killing, the real beauty cannot be built on the killing, Chanel this move is undoubtedly won the support of all Internet users. PETA tweeted a tweet immediately after hearing the news: “2008 is the year designers stepped out of the Stone Age!” On the surface seems to be happy for the animals, but I think it is more gratified! 
Chanel was not the first to give up the use of rare animal fur. Before him, Calvin Klein gave up the use of fur materials in 1996 and joined the international fur union. With fewer and fewer rare animals now, people all over the world are calling for “no sale, no killing”. In recent years, more and more institutions have joined the international anti-fur alliance, and more and more design works have won fashion awards, the effect and appearance are no less than the clothes made by precious fur.
Chanel’s statement has a great impact on the luxury industry, and it is hoped that Chanel’s statement can attract the attention of other brands, so as to truly achieve the goal of “no sales, no killing”.
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